Lexicon Road and Artillery Road ran alongside this fortification. Gaps in this fortification included the Great Bitter Lake, which was thought too wide to cross. When this fortification finally saw combat, many parts of it were knocked down using onl
Lexicon Road and Artillery Road ran alongside this fortification. Gaps in this fortification included the Great Bitter Lake, which was thought too wide to cross. When this fortification finally saw combat, many parts of it were knocked down using only high-pressure water hoses. "Orcal" and "Budapest" were among the names given to the eleven strongholds along this fortification, each of which housed a company of defending troops. Earlier, this fortification had been the site of the so-called "War of Attrition". Destroyed during the early stages of the Yom Kippur War and crossing the Sinai Peninsula, for ten points name this fortification that once separated Israel from Egypt.
Lexicon Road and Artillery Road ran alongside this fortification.
{Bar}-{Lev Line} [accept: {Kav Bar Lev}; {Khatt Barlif}]